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Jan 7th, 2004 at 9:57pm

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Cultural Differences Explained
Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.
Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad.
Yanks: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.
Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.
Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club.
Yanks: Believe that people should look out for & take care of themselves.
Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.
Yanks: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness.
Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them.
Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.

Yanks: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.
Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels.
Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels. (or five, if you're lucky.)
Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.

Yanks: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball.
Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.
Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.
Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in.

Yanks: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".
Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English".
Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.
Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in an attempt to get laid.

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Yanks: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.
Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Yanks: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

Yanks: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect.
Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things.
Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.
 
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Reply #1 - Jan 7th, 2004 at 10:24pm

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Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.


ROFL!!!
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Reply #2 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 12:09am
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Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.


Maybe not the baseball, although the Jays did do a fine job at it;
but the hockey part is oh so true.

 
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Reply #3 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 12:36am

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lol but we beat you Aussies at the Rugby didn't we? Wink Roll Eyes Grin
 
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Reply #4 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 3:28am

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Reply #5 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 4:05am

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LMAO............! Grin

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Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

Hmmm. I have often been mistaken for an Aussie while in the US. Make of that what you will. Shocked Roll Eyes Cheesy
 

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Reply #6 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 5:10am

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Its the beard Hagar, muffles your voice. My mother goes mental when Americans can't tell the difference between the Irish and the Scottish!
And yup, Aus V England and Rugby........ Grin
 

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Reply #7 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 6:24am

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LOL funny:)
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My mother goes mental when Americans can't tell the difference between the Irish and the Scottish!

LOL you'd have thought with most americans claiming to be irish or of irish decent, they'd at least know the differance
 
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Reply #8 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 10:11am

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LOL funny:)
LOL you'd have thought with most americans claiming to be irish or of irish decent, they'd at least know the differance

Smiley Did you ever see Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins or Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire? I rest my case. Tongue Wink
 

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Reply #9 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 11:27am

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Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad. 


I've been mstaken for French in my own town  Tongue

Yanks: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer. 
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer. 
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss. 
Aussies
Scots
: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
 

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Reply #10 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 11:29am

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I've been mstaken for French in my own town  Tongue

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Reply #11 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 1:22pm

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Oh where would we be without the fine acting skills of Mr. Penis van Lesbian Dick van Dyke Roll Eyes
 
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Reply #12 - Jan 8th, 2004 at 10:15pm

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LOL...funny comparisons.

My family has been mistaken for many cultures. From European, Spanish right to Chinese.
 
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Reply #13 - Jan 9th, 2004 at 3:54am

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LOL...funny comparisons.

My family has been mistaken for many cultures. From European, Spanish right to Chinese.


Man, you must be one funny lookin' dude . . . Grin
 

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Reply #14 - Jan 9th, 2004 at 7:46am

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Man, you must be one funny lookin' dude . . . Grin


lmao . . . . how true!
 
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